The Origins of Contemporary Philosophy of Language 3501-OCPL20-S
The seminar will be the first combined course implemented at the IF UW as part of the CEEPUS program. Classes will be taught by prof. Una Popović (University of Novi Sad), Goran Rujević (University of Novi Sad) and Tadeusz Ciecierski (IF UW). Its goal is to look at the sources (often common!) of the contemporary philosophy of language - both analytical and continental.
A part of the course will be focused on the interrelations of contemporary logic, the phenomenology and ideas developed in Brentano school, especially with regard to the problem of meaning. The main issues addressed are: 1) the problem of language as such, that is, the new ways of philosophical analysis of language, 2) the relations between the theories of intentionality and theories of linguistic content, and 3) the question of meaning(fulness), as an especially important aspect of the philosophy of language in both of these traditions.
Planned topics (tentative list):
1) Aristotle, Al-Farabi and Avicenna: precursors to contemporary philosophy of language
2) Frege and Husserl: the new approaches to the language and the problem of meaning
3) Husserl: semantic categories (connections with categorial grammar) and indexicality
4) Twardowski and Frege: object and content versus sense and reference
5) Meinong, objectives, kinds of intentional acts and their correlata
6) Frege on sense and indexicality
7) The analogy between language and games
8) Husserl and Heidegger: formal indication – methodological character of language
9) Heidegger and Carnap: the concept of Nothing
10) Brentano school and speech act theory (Reinach and Austin)
11) Phenomenology and the Ordinary Language Philosophy: the performative character of language
12) Meaning and scientific discourse
Rodzaj przedmiotu
Tryb prowadzenia
Założenia (opisowo)
Efekty kształcenia
Knowledge
- has a detailed knowledge of the sources of contemporary philosophy of language
- knows the basic research methods and argumentation strategies specific to the contemporary philosophy of language
Skills
- recognizes the relationship between the philosophy of language and other areas of philosophy: ethics, ontology and epistemology
- is able to briefly present the problem in writing with an argumentation in favour of solving it
- reads and interprets philosophical texts
Social skills
- is able to present his views to the group in a clear and comprehensible manner
- can listen to a person with different views and relate to their beliefs in a substantive manner
Kryteria oceniania
final essay
Number of absences: 3
Literatura
Carnap and Kuhn on linguistic frameworks and scientific revolutions.Gilson Olegario - 2013 - Manuscrito 36 (1):190.
Frege and Husserl: The Ontology of Reference.Barry Smith - 1978 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 9 (2):111–125.
From the Act of Judging to the Sentenc, Artur Rojszczak, 2005
G.F. Stout and Psychological Origins of Analytic Philosophy, Maria van der Schaar, Palgrave 2013
Reinach’s Theory of Social Acts, Arkadiusz Chrudzimski, Studia Phaenomenologica 2015
The A Priori Foundations of the Civil Law.Adolf Reinach - 1983 - Aletheia 3:1-142.
Theory of Descriptions, Graham Stevens, Palgrave 2011
(selection, changes possible)
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